round soap forms

[HVi]

Hello everyone,
any ideas on using a round form to make smaller gift-sized bars? What are you guys using?
Thanks!

 

[AliOop]

PVC or ABS pipe works well and is quite inexpensive. You can buy it at the hardware store in the plumbing or irrigation section and have it cut to whatever size you want. You can also buy a cap for the end. A 2” pipe makes very nice guest bar size, and 3” makes a nice regular-sized round soap.

 

[lsg]

You can re-purpose Pringles cans, if they are lined.

 

[glendam]

The other day I experimented with a round silicone beaker. It did leave the measurements markers on the side, but I didn’t mind them.

 

[ResolvableOwl]

There are countless silicone moulds, from simple cylindrical pucks to intricate haute-cuisine dessert puzzles. Long before the Great Flood of silicone arrived here, I've occasionally made comfortable-shaped individual soaps from soap dough: just roll a ball and squeeze it into a flat shape. I'm sometimes doing this at unmould/cut/bevel/plane time with the trimmings. Put along the actual bars, impatient me can give the soap a try a few weeks into cure, but without having to touch the bars themselves.

 

[AliOop]

I've occasionally made comfortable-shaped individual soaps from soap dough: just roll a ball and squeeze it into a flat shape.

Good idea. One can also roll out soap dough and use a turned-over drinking glass or stainless cookie cutter to cut it into round bars. But I think a cylindrical mold of some kind will be much less work. Yes, I am much lazier than you, @ResolvableOwl !

 

[ResolvableOwl]

You're too lazy to roll a few soap dough balls, I'm too lazy to clean the mould, or cookie cutter/rolling pin afterwards.

 

[earlene]

Hello everyone,
any ideas on using a round form to make smaller gift-sized bars? What are you guys using?
Thanks!

I have used round yogurt containers to make small round soap in the past. If you're talking about smaller than normal round soaps, they work fine for small round soap you can cut to your desired width.

 

[Ugeauxgirl]

I use Crystal Lite canisters. You can cut the bottom off and tape the lid to use as the bottom. You can either slide them out when they're hard (freeze if you have to) or else cut a slit all the way down the mold before pouring and tape it back up. That way you can pull the tape off and open it up for easier unmolding